Miley Cyrus addresses Sinead O’Connor feud over ‘Wrecking Ball’

Miley Cyrus has opened up about her feud with the late Sinead O’Connor after the Irish singer claimed the pop star was being “pimped” out.

Following O’Connor’s demise in July aged 56, many followers remembered the open letter penned by O’Connor to Cyrus.

The letter addressed the then-recent launch of the music video for Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball”, wherein she is seen swinging on a demolition ball whereas nude.

After Cyrus mentioned that she’d been impressed by O’Connor’s accompanying visuals for her 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U”, O’Connor replied to the then-20-year-old “within the spirit of motherliness and with love”.

She instructed Cyrus that it wasn’t “‘cool’ to be bare and licking sledgehammers in your movies”, including that she is being “pimped” by the music trade.

You may learn the complete letter right here.

Cyrus has now addressed the letter, in addition to her response on the time, in new ABC documentary Infinite Summer time Trip: Continued (Yard Classes).

“On the time after I made ‘Wrecking Ball’, I used to be anticipating for there to be controversy and backlash, however I don’t suppose I anticipated different girls to place me down or activate me, particularly girls that had been in my place earlier than,” the 30-year-old recalled.

“So that is after I had acquired an open letter from Sinéad O’Connor, and I had no thought concerning the fragile psychological state that she was in.”

On the time, Cyrus responded by making enjoyable of outdated tweets despatched by O’Connor throughout a interval of ailing psychological well being. She in contrast the singer to former Nickelodeon baby star Amanda Bynes, who was additionally struggling mentally.

O’Connor tweeted again that Cyrus was “mocking myself and Amanda Bynes for having suffered with psychological well being points and for having sought assist”, including: “It’s not acceptable to mock any particular person for having suffered.”

Rising emotional as she mentioned her response within the documentary, the previous Disney Channel star continued: “I used to be additionally solely 20 years outdated. So I might actually solely wrap my head round psychological sickness a lot and all that I noticed was that one other girl had instructed me that this concept was not my thought.

“Even when I used to be satisfied that it was, it was nonetheless simply males in energy’s thought of me they usually had manipulated me to imagine that it was my very own thought when it by no means actually was. And it was. And it’s. And I nonetheless like it.”

Cyrus mentioned that she had “been judged for thus lengthy for my very own decisions that I used to be simply exhausted”, however lastly felt with “Wrecking Ball” that she was making “my very own decisions and my very own choices”.

“To have that taken away from me deeply upset me,” she concluded, earlier than including: “God bless Sinéad O’Connor for actual, in all seriousness.”

Cyrus then performs her tune “Marvel Lady”, with the phrases: “Devoted to Sinead O’Connor” written on the display screen.

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